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By the way from what I have seen, it'll not just be the usual Pakistani bowling vs Indian batting.

Indian bowling is pretty balanced with genuine pacers and good spinners. The Pakistan batsmen have to face them too
 
By the way from what I have seen, it'll not just be the usual Pakistani bowling vs Indian batting.

Indian bowling is pretty balanced with genuine pacers and good spinners. The Pakistan batsmen have to face them too

And the bowling barring Afridi and Musa is not that good. Hope they play Munir Riaz for Sulaiman Shafqat.
Shafqat will be a piece of cake for the Indian batsmen
 
I knew his name sounded familar.

Shaw is the kid who scored 500 a few years back.
 
I think, opposite - in these era of batting friendly days, bowlers still has the biggest role to play. Otherwise, simply BD doesn't exist is cricket - batsmen are scoring runs, but it's the bowlers that's making difference at home. I think, equivalent of those 3 bowlers these days will take any team among to 3, simply because of the defensive quality of batsmen are so poor that, most batting line-up won't survive 50 overs. One thing will happen is that their (equivalents) economy will suffer, but you'll see teams all out for 234 in 44'3 overs ....

Coming to PAK team, I don't think batting is the biggest issue - most times, teams (players) are picked for wrong format; wrong combination and wrong strategy used. Besides, most of the players are playing for themselves and the seniors are manipulating the situation to show their importance - you should thank Ul Haq for that, rather than cursing the team. Fakhar, Hasan, Shadab are few guys, I have seen trying their best and already have won few critical games for PAK.

I would rephrase your comments this way - take MoHa, Malik, Azhar, Sarfraz (WK), to 1990s, PAK would have been 6th/7th in ranking out of 8 and a W/L of 1/5 against top 5/6 teams - because wood is wood and iron is iron in every generation.

Do you think Wasim, Waquar or Sohaib would take this nonsense of playing Azhar Ali as ODI opener, Sarfraz as WK and MoHa/Malik as batting backbone at 4/5?

I agree with the gist of your post, but the fundamental problem that I see right now is the inability of our batting lineup to score 250+ regularly against the top sides even on flat pitches, and I don’t think any bowling attack will be enough to bridge that gap.

On these pitches with short boundaries, thick edges and multiple cameras to catch ball-tampering, I don’t see Wasim or Waqar or Shoaib bringing the par score from 300 to 200. Batsmen have become defensively suspect, but they have taken attacking cricket to another level.

They have multiple shots and athleticism to every delivery, and they have developed the mentality of not allowing wickets to peg them back (minus Pakistan of course) thanks to deep lineups.

Tailender wickets don’t come cheap in this era. They were bonus in the 80s and 90s. But one get one free type coupons and deals.

Now you buy one and the next man walking in will make you regret buying the previous one.
 
I agree with the gist of your post, but the fundamental problem that I see right now is the inability of our batting lineup to score 250+ regularly against the top sides even on flat pitches, and I don’t think any bowling attack will be enough to bridge that gap.

On these pitches with short boundaries, thick edges and multiple cameras to catch ball-tampering, I don’t see Wasim or Waqar or Shoaib bringing the par score from 300 to 200. Batsmen have become defensively suspect, but they have taken attacking cricket to another level.

They have multiple shots and athleticism to every delivery, and they have developed the mentality of not allowing wickets to peg them back (minus Pakistan of course) thanks to deep lineups.

Tailender wickets don’t come cheap in this era. They were bonus in the 80s and 90s. But one get one free type coupons and deals.

Now you buy one and the next man walking in will make you regret buying the previous one.

Ever since I've followed Pakistan Cricket we've never had those Colin Munro type batsmen in our armoury. It's strange that even in a population of 200 million, and with a relatively successful t20 league as compared to New Zealand we still can't find a proper aggressive batsman. Frankly speaking, I don't see any talent emerging and we will continue to limp to 220 in 50 overs.
 
Ever since I've followed Pakistan Cricket we've never had those Colin Munro type batsmen in our armoury. It's strange that even in a population of 200 million, and with a relatively successful t20 league as compared to New Zealand we still can't find a proper aggressive batsman. Frankly speaking, I don't see any talent emerging and we will continue to limp to 220 in 50 overs.

Correct. We will not go anywhere as a team unless we can produce batsmen who can play the modern, aggressive game. It doesn’t matter how good our bowling becomes, we need batsmen who can mantain a run rate of 6 and above throughout the innings. Our batting is a joke.
 
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